To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written on December 7 or 8, 1922Published:First published in part in 1957 in the magazineVoprosy Istorii KPSSNo. 4.

      Published in full in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeZinoviev:

Idonot in the slightestsuspect you of being biased
about Rozhkov.

Notin the slightest!

Butin substance I very much fear that he will lie all
he can,even if it is in the press. He will lie and we shall
be circumvented.

Thatis what I fear.

Theirslogan is: lie, leave the Party, remain in Russia.

Thatis what we must think andtalk
about.[1]

Yours,Lenin

[1]Areference to the deportation of a once active Menshevik,
N. A. Rozhkov. The question of Rozhkov was repeatedly
discussed by the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) C.C., which on                
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October 26, 1922, adopted this decision: “Rozhkov to be deported.”
On December 7, reverting the decision of October 26, the
Politbureau decided to postpone his deportation and published inIzvestia VTsIKhis article on Menshevik activity and announcement
of withdrawal from the Menshevik Party, together with comments by the
editor Y. M. Steklov (Central Party Archives of the
Institute Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee).
See also next document.